Tuesday, October 15, 2013

I just thought of a new name for electronic voting

Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.

The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.

Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd confirms they were called in to help the employees at Walmart because there were so many people clearing off the shelves. He says Walmart was so packed, "It was worse than any black Friday" that he's ever seen.

Lynd explained the cards weren't showing limits and they called corporate Walmart, whose spokesman said to let the people use the cards anyway. From 7 to 9 p.m., people were loading up their carts, but when the cards began showing limits again around 9, one woman was detained because she rang up a bill of $700.00 and only had .49 on her card. She was held by police until corporate Walmart said they wouldn't press charges if she left the food.

Lynd says at 9 p.m., when the cards came back online and it was announced over the loud speaker, people just left their carts full of food in the aisles and left.

"Just about everything is gone, I've never seen it in that condition," said Mansfield Walmart customer Anthony Fuller.

Word gets out that the EBT cards have no limit, and within minutes America's "we are the change we have been waiting for" crowd are clearing the shelves into their shopping carts.

EBT, in case you were wondering, stands for Electronic Benefits Transfer. A tekkie name for welfare.

There's an irony here. The Obamavoters in the Walmart orgy were themselves purchased, using working people's money, to secure votes for our Democrat elites. Now the purchased Obamavoters are purchasing, using working people's money, as payment for their only work, which is voting for Democrats every couple of years.

According to eHow, this is how one obtains an EBT card:1) Complete and submit an application in person at the local welfare office.2) Attend the eligibility interview indicated on your appointment letter, with documents.3) Wait for a determination letter regarding your application.4) Spend money.

I take it that some of these EBT (food stamp) recipients are the same people who are allegedly incapable of obtaining picture ID from the DMV for voting?

While the implicit promise of democracy is that it will lead to solidarity, prosperity, and liberty, it appears that quite the opposite is true--social conflict, runaway spending, and a tyrannical government.

Egnor and his usual redneck fans seem to suggest that people on "welfare" are overwhelmingly Obama voters, but since it has been firmly established that Egnor is rather, shall we say, economical with facts, I wonder what's the actual breakdown of welfare recipients along ideological, partisan, ethnic and religious lines. I wouldn't be surprised if millions of Republican Christian hicks from the sticks are on welfare, but I'd like to see some numbers to test my suspicions and your suggestions.

By the way, I believe it was you parroting the Krugtron claim that red states get the most government money.

That's correct as far as it goes, which is not very far. Serious people (like the Brookings Institution, a left-of-center think tank) who aren't primarily engaged in axe-grinding look at county-level data.

Well, you must admit, we've had a somewhat different government since 2007. President Jeebus McLightworker has presided over the weakest recession in modern history, and the welfare, disability, and food stamp rolls are expanding rapidly. Income inequality is growing. Young people, women and minorities have, for once, truly been most severely affected.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category. On that regard, the president ought to be held responsible.--- Tavis Smiley, NPR (African-American)

So whose side are you on, Troi?

Wall St is enjoying a boom, though, and banks are bigger and richer than ever. There's that to comfort the workforce dropouts.

About one-in-five (22%) of Democrats say they had received food stamps compared with 10% of Republicans

about three in ten Democrats (31%) and about half as many Republicans (17%) say they or someone in their household has benefitted from the food stamp program

"No difference"?

Here's where your error is:

significant proportions of Democrats (60%) and Republicans (52%) say they have benefited from a major entitlement program at some point in their lives. So have nearly equal shares of self-identifying conservatives (57%), liberals (53%) and moderates (53%). The programs were Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, unemployment benefits and food stamps.

You see, in order to get that equal representation, you needed to conflate programs for the elderly and disabled with welfare and food stamps. The folks at Pew weren't that ignorant. They break them out separately, as they should.

Thank you again for another” feel good, uplifting, that there are good people in this world story”. We read so many stories that are negative about people and what they do to others. A random act of kindness is always such a great thing to hear about. Peace and blessings.electronic

Do we really always look at the negative side of this electronic voting system? I know that there are a number of flaws when it comes to this matter but I'm pretty sure positives could outweigh all the negatives. I still believe that electronic voting helps a lot in making a clean election and giving convenience to voters at the same time. Although there are those who still have doubts on this, I'm pretty sure one day they would appreciate what electronic voting can do.

"The Christian idea of the world is that it originated in a very complicated process of evolution but that it nevertheless still comes in its depths from the Logos. It thus bears reason in itself."

Benedict XVI

"The universe is not the product of darkness and unreason; it comes from intelligence, freedom, and from the beauty that is identical with love"

Benedict XVI

"We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God."

Benedict XVI

"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding."

Plato

"Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors"

Isaac Newton

"I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."Albert Einstein

"Egnorance: The Egotistical Combination of Ignorance and Arrogance" Burt Humburg

"Egnor [is] an interesting example of the religious pathology that's going to be afflicting us for probably the next century..." P.Z. Myers

"...so far Dr.Egnor seems not to grasp the folly of his situation." Steven Novella

"Michael Egnor is giving every sign of continuing the shenanigans that has already made him infamous in skeptical circles." Steven Novella

"Dr. Egnor has his own blog now. Hilarity ensues..."Orac

"Egnor probably always was an arrogant asshole, also when he was an athiest. Then he had a midlife crisis, found religion and he became an even bigger asshole."

Troy

"...it is simply impossible for me to continue to believe that the "Michael Egnor" articles are being written by a real person who really believes what he (or she) writes." Mike Dunford

"Michael Egnor comes back for another helping of whup ass..." P.Z. Myers

"Dr. Egnor's deviously clever plan to destroy Darwinism once and for all..." Orac

"Dr. Egnor regularly laid down flaming swaths of stupid ..." Orac

"...Dr. Egnor reaches a new low..." Mark C. Chu-Carroll

"Egnor's machine is uninhabited by any ghost..." P.Z. MyersSuddenly [Egnor] knows law better than lawyers, he knows biology better than biologists, he pretends to know everything better than people who have actually studied whatever it is that Egnor feels threatens his crazy religion. Troy

"This is not an excuse for Dr. Egnor's ignorance – he threw his hat into the ring, he deserves what he gets. He should have had the proper humility to stay out..."Steven Novella

"...that paragon of arrogant ignorance, Dr. Michael Egnor, is back at it again..." Mark C. Chu-Carroll

"...Michael Egnor just can't get enough of making himself look like an idiot..." Mark C. Chu-Carroll

"Dr. Michael Egnor: Neurosurgeon, Stony Brook Faculty, and all around Dishonest Twit...based on the level of intellectual integrity that he just demonstrated, he's not someone I would trust to train a dog, much less a doctor" Mike Dunford

"Two Things that Don't Go Together: Michael Egnor and Intellectual Integrity...Someone once pointed out that when a dog pisses on a fire hydrant, it's not committing an act of vandalism. It's just being a dog..." Mike Dunford